Coffee grounds instead of cornmeal?

[No second place]

Ok could someone please explain where the benefit is in putting a filler in your cylinder,yes I have tried it and guess what no difference if the ball sits 1/8 inch from the top of the cylinder or if it’s sitting flush with the cylinder the ball hits where I’m aiming so with that being said is this just one of those things that people fall for because someone snake oil salesman said they need it.i figure if this was a viable adition to powder,wad,ball the big retailers would be pushing there super secret special cylinder additive on there web sites. Just askin

Benefit of loading flush w/ a C/M or C of W Filler?...Better accuracy leading to national records and championships...If you are not a NRA/NMLRA match shooter or just not needing precision you may not need to bother with this...c

 

[jonathan hawkin]

Slightly related, I did try mixing coffee and black powder, to see if I could get a coffee smell in the smoke!, just shooting clays with my old flinter, took quite a lot 50-50 I recall, still hit Clay's but did get odd looks from the nitro shooters

 

[Jay Templin]

Don't know about using it as a cylinder filler, but if yer Bride sprinkles the grounds directly around her roses instead of composting them, the plants will love it.
Jay

 

[bore_butter]

ants don't like the coffee grounds too. read that they have a natural insecticide in them. i've been using them for that purpose for the last 8 years.

 

[dogfood]

ants don't like the coffee grounds too. read that they have a natural insecticide in them. i've been using them for that purpose for the last 8 years.

The natural insecticide is one of the main reasons we drink it— caffeine.
Same goes for tobacco plants and their nicotine.

 

[tenngun]

Aren’t you afraid it will keep your guns up at night?

 

[azmntman]

 

[Eterry]

Aren’t you afraid it will keep your guns up at night?

Now THATS funny, I dont care who you are !!

 

[wb78963]

I use grits for filler and lube with bacon grease.
When I am shooting it smells like breakfast time in Georgia!

 

[No second place]

I use grits for filler and lube with bacon grease.
When I am shooting it smells like breakfast time in Georgia!

What`s a "grit"?

 

[Eterry]

What`s a "grit"?

Is that you, Vinny?

 

[VADSLRAM]

Is that instant grits?

Maybe I need ticker glasses.

 

[wb78963]

Grits, also known as Georgia Ice Cream, is a food you poor benighted Yankees never heard of.
It is dried and milled hominy.

 

[mushka]

Well, to respond to your original inquiry: Just try it for yourself and see how it goes for you. Best way to find a thing out.

 

[mooman76]

Grits, also known as Georgia Ice Cream, is a food you poor benighted Yankees never heard of.
It is dried and milled hominy.

What's Hominy?

 

[wb78963]

Hominy is like a Barber Shop Quartet. singin'
Don't you know nothin'?
Gee Whiz guys
Load 'e heavy boys, they air a' comin'
Bunk

 

[Zonie]

What's Hominy?

Hominy is made by soaking corn kernels (usually dry corn) in lye water and boiling it or letting it soak overnight. The lye loosens the outer hull and the tough little germ on the kernels. After it is rinsed several times the shells are peeled off so you end up with the "meat" of the corn.
It is usually eaten in its softened condition but as was mentioned above, sometimes it is dried and then ground into "grits".

 

[mooman76]

I know, just messing around. I know what grits are too. Not a big fan but not bad either. I could take them or leave them.

 

[mushka]

Some folks like grits with honey, some with butter. I like grits with a lotta butter. Hominy about the same. Some mix the stuff up with eggs, but I like them separate.

 

[Col. Batguano]

Adding coffee grounds to your gardening soil will make it slightly more acidic. I have no idea if that would carry through when they're dry to the inside of a cylinder or not, and create a corrosion risk, but I would first perform a science experiment on untreated steel to find out for myself (if leaving a cylinder loaded for any length of time is in your future). Odds are it wouldn't though.

It IS more coarse though than the other more commonly used fillers though, so finer powders may find a way to migrate in between the grain spaces, and create inconsistent velocities.